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Learning Guide: Amazing Countries
Author: Noralba Correa Suárez – Description: This English self-study guide helps you identify typical characteristics of different countries, compare them and talk about them. You can also practise writing comparisons by writing sentences of places and using the adjectives in the right form.
On Top of Old Smokey – Song with Audio, Lyrics, and Poster
Author: American English – Description: An audio of song in English. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Visit the American English page here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/
Teaching Guide: Lifestyles
Author: Alvaro Villota Villarreal – Description: This plan is designed to provide students a context to practice adverbs of frequency in a meaningful and entertaining way. The idea is to bring them a familiar story so they can relate.
Learning Guide: Playing Traditional Games
Author: Andrés Uyabán Moreno, Ana Piñeros – Description: This English self-study guide helps you practice vocabulary related to traditional games, hobbies,
and likes, in order to design a poster with information about your favorite traditional game. All the activities are related to the topic of hobbies and traditional games presented in the Way to Go Student’s Book 7, Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 3. The guide starts with some activities to learn
and practice vocabulary. Secondly, you will find a reading comprehension exercise, a listening comprehension activity, and an exercise to review grammar. Finally, you will find a template as
a basis for you to design a poster about your favorite traditional game.
Teaching Guide: School problems and how to handle them
Author: Isabel Cristina Pinto Garcés – Description: This plan gives learners the opportunity to use English in context and also to express their thoughts about common situations for them, so that they can talk about their feelings and also provide solutions to a problem.
Teaching Guide: Famous People
Author: Jhon James Galvez Corrales – Description: This plan guides students to practice present simple tense through different engaging activities. Students will be working individually and in groups and will have the opportunity to carry out assessment in order to know their improvements and challenges in their learning process.
Teaching Guide: Recognizing and protecting our bodies
Author: Blanca Yolanda Ramirez F. – Description: This lesson plan raises students’ awareness on the issues that might happen at the school and some ways to avoid them. The lesson provides students with the opportunity to analyse the ways they can make their environment safe.
Teaching Guide: Teen Culture
Author: Melba Sofía Cifuentes Rodríguez – Description: This plan will enable students to reflect on the characteristics they consider important in a role model giving them the opportunity to express their point of view and to talk about important roles for them. The lesson presents useful vocabulary in a context that creates a good speaking framework then, students will be able to enhance their communicative skills.
Teaching Guide: Environment: Past tense
Author: Andrés Grisales Gómez – Description: This plan permits students and teachers to reflect upon some of the actions they have done in the past from an environmental perspective. Thus, this helps them to build a new action plan towards conservation and environmental consciousness.
Learning Guide: Our beautiful natural world
Author: Yolanda Lozano Llanos – Description: This self-study guide helps you to understand and practice the importance of taking care of the natural resources in our departments and towns through the topic Our beautiful natural word presented in Way to Go student and workbook 7 on Pages 91-92 and 31-32. It starts with two vocabulary activities, then you have to read a short paragraph and complete the missing words found the word bank and you must answer the questions according to the paragraph. Finally, you can choose in a traffic light the correct option according to your experience in this work.
Classroom Activities: Fishing
Description: Three activities for classroom use. The first is a card game, the second is a stories activity, and the last is a environment presentation. The first card game isn’t suitable and the others need adaptation. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Teaching Guide: Protect the earth
Author: Nancy Yohana Alvarez Montiel – Description: This lesson plan gives you the opportunity to get to know yourself in the teaching role in a more creative way, by showing your students another facet of you and to make classes more interactive and fun by allowing students achieve to get better results in classes. It can also be a useful class if you need to make a short class.
Learning Guide: My body
Author: Linda Stephany Morales Berrocal – Description: This English self-study guide helps you describe and talk about your body parts. All the activities are related to the reading and presented in Way to Go Student Book 6 Module 2 Unit 1 (page 51). It starts with some vocabulary activities. that you practice every day. Then, you have to read some texts and work on some activities. Also, you have to complete some sentences with missing information, then you have to write a short description of your body with the language of the topic. Finally, you must share a speaking activity with your family.
Fun with Weather
Author: Rana Yildirim – Description: A lesson plan about the weather. These resources were originally created for English language learners and teachers around the world by the Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Visit the American English page here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/
Speaking Test A2.1 Set 2
Author: MEN, Pearson and British Council
Description: Speaking Exam from the Evaluation Tools designed by MoE, Pearson and British Council.
Learning Guide: The animals in my farm
Author: Javier Elkin Melo – Description: In this guide you are going to check some vocabulary about animals and learn prepositions to describe
positioning in a place. Finally, you will draw your farm and write a description about the animals in it.
Enjoy the activities!
Teaching Guide: Bullying and conflicts
Author: Maria Del Carmen Santacruz – Description: This plan is intended to provide language practice, but most importantly to promote good behaviour and compromises within the classroom to reduce conflict and bullying. This plan can be applied to any level by adapting the listening exercise to make it more challenging.
Learning Guide: Be Smart: Do Exercise
Author: Angela Maria Orozco Velasquez, Sandra Milena Marin Rios – Description: This English self-study guide will help you practice vocabulary and structures to talk about people’s abilities. These activities are related to the book Way to go 7, page 23. First, you will discover some words about it, then you will practice with some examples of abilities and finally you will interview a classmate and assess your work. Are you ready? Let’s go!
Teaching Guide: How was my life before social networks?
Author: Liseth Patricia Jiménez Arias – Description: This lesson plan is very useful if you are thinking on teaching simple past tense
